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were too clear that even the dissenters were obliged to come back into the union.
While defending its independence and refusing subordinate its activities to the dictates of any party, the Union is at the same time completely at one with the working class and Soviet Government in their fight against Russian and International Counter Revolution and takes the most active part in the restoration of industrial life in this country. The participation of the Union in constructive work might be more active and benificial should certain mistrust expressed by the authorities wards the Union have had no place in their relations, As it is the Union is labouring in the atmosphere of suspicion, being regarded by the authorities as a non-communist organisation which thereby has no right to have an independent opinion in regard to industrial conditions of workers' life or the trend of financial and technical policy of the department.
Regulation of Remuneration.
It is only by an enormous amount of labour that the idea of obligatory regulation of remuneration was grafted on the minds of Union's members who mistrusted the activities of their own organisation in this particular domain. In addition, extreme youth and ensuing weakness of our industrial movement were not made for laying down a right and proper lines of development of this particular branch of Union's activities. In the period immediately following the March Revolution and ending by the time of that of November, the Union's attention was directed chiefly towards the mechanical increase in rates of wages and salaries; after the latter revolution, when the bourgeoisie was defeated, Union was obliged to regularise the remuneration on its own account and by means devised by itself. Gran-
